Figure Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[dcro 10,179]

Gold for Zagitova.

[Ros 77]

Wow Medvedeva!!!

[heywoodu 13,559]

Haha exact same score  

[vinipereira 3,054]

Meh.

 

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Gold for the performance I felt nothing and silver for the one I felt everything.

 

[intoronto 4,242]

Both Olympic Athletes had same score.

[dcro 10,179]

Just now, vinipereira said:

Meh.

 

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Gold for the performance I felt nothing and silver for the one I felt everything.

 

 

It's because she has a scientific program, with all jumps in the second half to get extra points for distribution (yep, having all jumps in one half gives you more points for "distribution" ). Who cares for artistry if you can win it with math.

[vinipereira 3,054]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

It's because she has a scientific program, with all jumps in the second half to get extra points for distribution (yep, having all jumps in one half gives you more points for "distribution" ). Who cares for artistry if you can win it with math.

 

Exactly. Just goes to show that the "artistic" part is not valued enough (same problem with Gymnastics).

[hckošice 13,264]

Medvedeva

[Ros 77]

  Perhaps the comments are the same everywhere in the world. Medvedeva was amazing but the score was not   

[dcro 10,179]

Though it's not like Medvedeva was that perfect. She lacked speed and ground cover in some of the jumps, and also artistry (but not as much as Zagitova ofc).

 

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